Papers of ACTUP activist Jorge Cortiñas covering a variety of topics including materials relating to HIV status and immigration, and HIV and people of color

Between 1989 and 1991 activists in San Francisco spearheaded a campaign to lift all HIV-related restrictions on immigration into the United States. Jorge Cortiñas was a leader in this movement through his involvement in both ACT-UP San Francisco/Golden Gate's Immigration Working Group and in the Coalition for Immigration and Refugee Rights and Services (CIRRES) HIV Task Force. Cortiñas and other activists from these organizations participated in a number of "zap" actions and protests designed to raise awareness of HIV-related immigration policy. In 1991, ACT-UP and CIRRES helped organize a campaign that criticized the choice of location for the 8th International Conference on AIDS, scheduled for Boston in 1992. Activists demanded that the conference be relocated unless United States' discriminator policy on immigration was altered.

1 linear foot (2 manuscript boxes)

Copyright to unpublished manuscript materials has been transferred to the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society.

Collection is open for research.